Improved car-replacer



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIoE.

BENJAMIN W. FELTON, OF ROXBURY, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED CAR-REPLACER.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 71,596, dated December 3, 1867.

To all persoas to whom these presents shall come Be it known that I, BENJAMIN W. FELToN, of Roxbury, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful or Improved Car-Replacer 5 and do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 a bottom view, Fig. 3 a transverse section, Figs. 4 and 5 end views, and Figs. 6 and 7 areedge elevations, o it.

It is to be made in one piece of iron, either wrought or cast. I usually make it of castiron. It will answer to aid in getting a railroad-car back upon the railway-track, on whichever side the oar may be oft'. It will also answer to enable a car to be run ott' the track on either side thereof.

It is made with two long right-angled triangular projections, one of which, A, extends from one side of a rectangular plate, C, and the other, B, from the opposite side thereof. The arrangement of the projections is such that the apex of A and the base B are at one end ofthe plate. the same causing the base of A and the apex of B to be at the opposite end of the said plate. Furthermore, the plate C,

on each side of it, and next the apex of the triangular projection of such side, is formed with an inclination or sloping channel, a, to extend from'the middle to the edgeof the plate and into the other triangular projection at its base, through whichthe said sloping channel opens, in manner as exhibited in the drawings.

-In using the replacer to direct a car-wheel upon its track, the longer of the two sides of the lowermost projection, A or B, which are at a right angle to each other, is to be placed v against the edge-of the rail, so that the flange of the wheel shall run into the uppermost -sloping channel a. The mode of using thev I duplex car-replacer, whether for aiding in getting a railway-carriage on or off a track, will be readily apparent to persons engaged in the management of vehicles of such description.

I am aware of the car-replacer described in Letters Patent numbered 40,928. I do not claim such, as mine di'ers materiallyl therefrom.

Some of the differences between the said car-replacer and mine may be stated as follows: It has in its upper surface no groove, which, by means of the flange of a wheel, while such wheel may be ascending such surface, operates with the flange to keep the replacer close against the side of the rail; sec-A ond, it has no right-angled triangular projections on the opposite sides ofthe plate, and consequently has no such an arrangement of such projections as is formed on my oar-replacer, in which the heel of each is next the toe of the other, nor has it any inclined grooves arranged within the heels of such projections, as is the case with my car-replacer.

In consequence of the construction of my improved car-replacer, it can be used onone rail in opposite directions, so as to project from the same side of it, thus enabling a car, when ott therail, to be run in either direction lengthwise of the rail during the act of replacing the oar thereon by means of the replacer. The patented replacer, or that of Robert Harper, does not admit of this double use on one side of a rail.

What I claim as my invention is- My improved or duplex ear-replaeer-that is, as made with the two triangular projections A B and channels a a, arranged on opposite sides of the plate, and with respect to one an-' l other, substantially as set' forth.

BENJAMIN W. FELTON. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, SAMUEL N. PIPER. 

